POEM
Three Poems on Demand
turtles generate poems
No wonder they move so slowly—
Somebody in there is
Trying to write.
PICTURES OF BUGS BUNNY DRESSED LIKE A THUG
What drove me to draw this picture
Of Bugs Bunny dressed like a thug?
Plural. Pictures. Not once did I sketch
The buff tattooed torso of Thug Bugs
But many times, over several days.
He looks mean, doesn’t he? When O when
Will this election be over
So I can blow off life again
Without inadvertently producing objects
Of great and mysterious-to-me beauty.
POEM FOR A SIXTH WEDDING
You know a lot better than I do
What you’re doing
NOTES: “Three poems on Demand” was written in response to web searches that led to Jordan Davis’s defunct blog [http://millionpoems.blogspot.com/]. (The search terms became the titles of the poems.) Davis was also inspired by K. Silem Mohammad’s essay “Sought Poems,” which accounts for the Flarf practice of making poems from Internet search results.
Source: Poetry (July/August 2009).
This poem originally appeared in the July/August 2009 issue of Poetry.
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